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February was a good month for Japan Tobacco Inc. as its domestic cigarette volume increased by nearly two percent and its market share stood almost two percentage points above that of the full year 2015.

Imperial Brands and Universal Leaf have put their weight behind a successful scheme to secure water supplies for communities in the south of Brazil, where most of the country’s export tobacco is grown.

Rather than just banning tobacco smoking in public places, the authorities in Cambodia are thinking about how they can best educate smokers about the new laws restricting where they can indulge their habit.

Figures from South Korea indicated that the better your education the wealthier you are, and the wealthier you are the less you indulge in unhealthy or risky habits, and the less you indulge in such habits the wealthier you are…

An EU proposal to tax electronic cigarettes has not gone down well in the UK’s upper house where some speakers made the point that the use of these products as quit-smoking aids should be encouraged rather than discouraged.

A proposal to introduce standardized tobacco packaging to Malaysia has met with opposition from the Asean Intellectual Property Association, which believes that such restrictions could spread to other consumer product packaging.

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